beat-maker, bangladesh, talks about working on nas's 10th album.

Incase you dont know, veteran rapper, nas is presently working on his tenth studio album. There has been a lot of talks on which producers would be featured on the masterpiece; from kanye west, to dr dre, to alchemist, to swizz beats, but one producer we are sure of at this point is the man that gave us the LIL WAYNE "a millie", BANGLADESH.

Check out what he had to say below:
"I just do what i would like to hear from him. I am a super nas fan. I have been a fan since he came out. Since the first song. With me being a producer and me having a sound, i would like to hear him on harder beats, more 808-driven, just more aggression. With a nas record, typically to me, the songs will make the track good. It's not the track that makes the song good and that is what i want to bring. I want to bring the track and the song so that you are not only jamming to the beat with words on it, but you can jam to the beat and the word on it, but you can jam to the beat and the words and you can jam to the acapella with no beat on it."

This is interesting to me, because that is what i have been telling all these young rap listeners and people that listen to a rap song because it is hot on radio; try and listen to the song without the beat and you would find out that you have been fed garbage. That is the difference between nas and all these other artist, he is actually saying something worth listening to, he is actually making sense with every word.

It is a wonderful thing that bangladesh is actually a nas fan and understands what nas stands for, so he would know how far nas can go in the attempt to make a radio friendly track.

Below is more of what bangladesh had to say:
"I think he is a great songwriter but sometimes his beats aren't as good as his songs. I want to bring the element where it is more aggressive, more heavy, something that's going to pay more attention to nas in an area where he doesn't get looked at a lot."

I just hope bangladesh doesn't try to take nas out of his element. I know IRV GOTTI(C.E.O OF MURDER INC) tried to do it back in 2002; he had already started saying nas was signed to his label, they went on to make a song(nas, jarule and ashanti) back in 2002, but nothing came out of it.
I just hope they are able to pull this off without giving nas a 'sell-out artist image'.

lupe fiasco's fan beg record label for release of LASERS

I think there is nothing sweeter than what LUPE FIASCO'S fans just did; they sent a petition to ATLANTIC records, lupe's record label, to request the drop date of fiasco's third album, "lasers", that has been complete since last summer. I think there is no more motivation than this for any artist to get; when your fans genuinely go all out to get your album out, meaning they really need it.

Below is the petition from the fans:
"Dear Atlantic Records: The fans below have been waiting for the release for Lupe Fiasco's album 'Lasers' for over a good year now. Since when it was originally announced last summer, there has still yet to be a release date announced. It has even been stated by Lupe Fiasco the artist himself, that the album si in fact completed. Enough is enough, we demand that you stop playing around and give us the album that we have been highly anticipating since the release of The Cool." (Petition Online)

 I think if my fans did that for my book release i would definitely cry...Anyway, this is really good for hip hop. This shows that there are still fans of real hiphop out there. Lupe Fiasco is one of the rappers that came out the last decade that i really respect; he has depth, super smooth delivery, and some thoughtful lyrics. I think he is a real hip hop head, a lover of rap music, and he is not just in it for the fame and the money or anything like that.

I still bump FOOD AND LIQUOR(his first album), and THE COOL(second album), everytime in my deck. Infact, i have food and liqour on my phone, and i listen to it every now and then.

 


Below is what lupe had to say about the petition:
"I love to see progression," he said yesterday via phone. "I love it. I love to see this petition. It brought me to tears a couple of times like, 'these n---as really f--- with me. All these kids and these fans f--- with me and it's some positive sh--. Go to Wearenotlosers.com and see what Lasers really is. ... That's what they're petitioning for. Listen to 'I'm Beamin,' the song. It reaffirms what we're doing...I don't think the label cares about an album. I don't think n---as care. People just want their number-one record. They don't care about the rest of the album. I was talking to an engineer the other day and he said, 'These n---as don't even care about mixing an album no more.' They just want the first three songs. Three singles. They get them, one, two, three, they don't care what's on the rest of the album. I know this for sure. I've seen it. You can't blame them because of the attention span of the game and the attention span of music, how fast things are going. You only got them one, two, three shots. I'm not no fool. I'm looking at it like 'Yeah, you're right.'" (MTV)

I think this is very true, record labels don't really care about the album as a whole any more, they are just interested in those hot singles that are radio friendly; club friendly. And the thing is that, i don't totally blame them, because they are in it for the money; they are a business, that is why it is called the music industry, so the demand is what they are concerned about.

Below is what the recod label had to say:
"#Lasers is coming folks!," Atlantic wrote Saturday (July 24).

Very short, but i guess they answered the question.
 

fat joe drops 10th album, 'THE DARKSIDE VOL 1'

Veteran New York rapper, fat joe, dropped his 10th album, THE DARKSIDE VOL 1 yesterday, tuesday the 27th of july 2010. The album's first single 'haha: slow down' featuring Southern rapper, YOUNG JEEZY, was for the streets, while the follow-up single, 'if it aint about the money' which featured r&b singer TREY SONGZ, was for the ladies.

People might say this and that about joe, but howmany rappers do you know that has made it up to 10 albums? Okay, JAY-Z has 11 albums under his belt. Nas has 9, ll cool j has 13. But howmany rappers have been in the game for close to 20 years(1st album in 93) and can still make relevant music? Very few. You should give him props for that alone. And as i have said, times without number, forget the singles, those are radio friendly songs, just go and listen to the full length album to get the real deal.

This would be his first album to be released under his new label, E1 ENTERTAINMENT.

I would heard out tomorrow to get the album, and i might have a review of it here, Godwilling, on sunday.

fat joe drops 10th album, 'THE DARKSIDE VOL 1'

Veteran New York rapper, fat joe, dropped his 10th album, THE DARKSIDE VOL 1 yesterday, tuesday the 27th of july 2010. The album's first single 'haha: slow down' featuring Southern rapper, YOUNG JEEZY, was for the streets, while the follow-up single, 'if it aint about the money' which featured r&b singer TREY SONGZ, was for the ladies.

People might say this and that about joe, but howmany rappers do you know that has made it up to 10 albums? Okay, JAY-Z has 11 albums under his belt. Nas has 9, ll cool j has 13. But howmany rappers have been in the game for close to 20 years(1st album in 93) and can still make relevant music? Very few. You should give him props for that alone. And as i have said, times without number, forget the singles, those are radio friendly songs, just go and listen to the full length album to get the real deal.

This would be his first album to be released under his new label, E1 ENTERTAINMENT.

I would heard out tomorrow to get the album, and i might have a review of it here, Godwilling, on sunday.

What do you think about tupac's death?

A lot has been said about tupac's death; some believe it was gang related; some believe it was political; and some don't even believe he is dead. Tupac, and the issues surrounding his death has been matter of top discussion amongst hiphop lovers and non-hiphop lovers for over a decade now. Tupac was shot dead in las vegas sept 1996, after a tyson fight. The fact that the shooter, who drove up to the car that carried pac and suge knights and opened fire, was never caught is the root of all the controvercy surrounding his death.

Me personally, i think tupac is really dead, but who killed tupac is still a question i haven't found an acceptable answer to.

Examing the gang hit factor to his death is questionable, because i don't think CRIPS would have had that much time to re-group and issue a hit on pac. I am saying this because a lot of people believe pac was killed in association with the fight he had gotten into just before living the tyson fight venue. He beat up a known crip for some chain snatching allegation. I think that was just something to take peoples eyes of the big picture. The person that popped pac must have had enough time for planning and also must have been a porn for a bigger organization, big enough to know the shooter would never be caught.

If you ask me; kay, do think pac was set up by the government of the united states, i would say yes. Tupac, like many revolutionary black individuals was killdd by the govt because of the influence he had on so many black people, especially the youth.

If you were asked to listen to a malcom x tape containing teachings or a tupac cd, i am sure you would go with pac. That is were tupac's power was, he was reaching out to the set the other revolutionaries before him couldn't; THE YOUTH.

rap albums on the billboard charts.

I apologise for posting this a bit late, you know i usually post this particular topic between wednesday and friday, but i have been working on completing this book i am writing, so i was really busy.

With that said, i would like to get into the main thing. Eminem is still at number one this week on the billboard top 200 rap album charts with 229,000 copies sold this week, bringing his total after 3weeks in stores to 1,287,000. With this kind of sales it wouldnt be long before he sells double platinum.

game about to drop another mixtape wholely produced by duo producers "cool n dre"

Yeah, game is about to drop a follow-up mixtape to his RED ROOM mixtape, titled BRAKE LIGHTS, but what people really want is his album, THE R.E.D album, which is has been pushed more times than necessary. I guess he doesn't have the type of buzz that interscope is worthy enough to drop his album. This is going to be his fourth album, and although he worked on the last two all by himself, this one has the control of JIMMY IOVINE and "dr dre".

I am a GAME an i really can't wait for the albu to drop, but i feel what he is going through, when you don't have total control to your work, there are a lot of things you can't just pull off like that. I wish him luck. I do know that this mixtape would be a banger because that is what he makes when he works with COOL N DRE.

Below is what he had to say about the mixtape:
"Here go the 1st single M.I.A. off the me & @djskee new mixtape "BRAKE LIGHTS" hittin streets next week.http://tinyurl.com/2fx7u75," Game tweeted Thursday (July 15) night.

"Every beat on the BRAKE LIGHTS mixtape is produced by @coolanddre & hosted by @djskee. This tape is serious, better than most n!ggas albums." (Game's Twitter)